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  • Kerry pays tribute to fellow Veterans

    05/31/2004 7:02:29 AM PDT · by kattracks · 48 replies · 330+ views
    AP | 5/31/04 | NANCY BENAC
    WASHINGTON (AP) — John Kerry paid a solemn early morning visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Monday, offering a quiet Memorial Day counterpoint to President Bush's tribute to the fallen across the Potomac River at Arlington National Cemetery. On a cool, misty morning, Kerry slowed walked along the black granite wedge, pausing to seek out a few names of significance to him. Kerry visited the wall with the family of William Bronson of Gardner, Mass. Bronson died in 1976 from a seizure related to a head wound he suffered in 1968 during combat in Vietnam. The Democratic presidential candidate...